My experience with DIABLO III. (Stay awhile and listen..)

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Ronteque wrote:

I am trying to get a refund now. I pre-ordered the digital copy. Does the 30 days refund policy start from 15May?

Seeing how you apparently are from the US (other regions have usually less time buffer for a refund), I'd give it a try. Even if you are too late, they can't do more than decline you - and it's certain to be recorded somewhere as dissatisfaction.

Be advised, however, that I put in my withdrawal/refund on May 20th, and was told that I was too late (in the EU, refunding for digital purchase is limited to 72 hours after buying. Even if you couldn't play in these 72 hours ;-)).


edit: Looked around a bit: Digital refunds seem to be in the US under the 3-days-limit, too. So no hope of getting your money back. Sorry, mate :-/

I guess OP don't know how to search in the AH.
I'm also in Act 2 (monk) and I never bought something above 200k. I may soon buy a 300k weapon because mine is a little bit low for Act 2 (700 DPS).

5 millions for something is kinda outrageous, especially for Act 2, you need to set a buyout price and filter your items.

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zeto wrote:

The crux of this issue is that they did it using multipliers to health and damage. This necessarily forces tier itemization to follow suit and a bunch of problems emerged.

What GGG needs to do is learn from that, and instead of continuing to build up, build out... hard doesn't have to mean huge hp and damage, and in fact, shouldn't.

Given finite content players will have to grind... it's the defining aspect of ARPGs. To that end, the Action must be the centerpiece. If the action isn't difficult, and it's just a gear check the entire way through... then why bother?

Ultimately difficulty boils down to death.. death boils down to damage. Action + damage means that difficult = situations where if you screw up you are likely to take MANY hits resulting in death. This does not imply that you should be taking 1, 2, or even 5 hits resulting in death.

Challenge then lies in having a system where it's normal to take a substantial amount of hits that you can mitigate and avoiding a substantial amount of damage through player skill.

For everyones sake Zeto I really really hope that GGG reads and understands what I have bolded. Because right now as not only myself,but many others have stated that unless GGG makes some pretty major cuts to elemental dmg now while we are still in closed beta this is exactly how the end game will be in PoE.
As it stands right now as we see in MoC because the DPS of the players right now is sooo far out of wack that GGG has no choice,but to make the end game mobs health so much higher then it needs to be. We also are already seeing this reflected in the DPS that the end game mobs are dishing out where if you are not using one of a few select specs and gear you get one shot.

Right now as I see it, player dps,mob health,mob dps is set much to high for the current state/timeline of the game. We currently only have 2 acts out of a presumed 10-14 acts of the games life. If we are starting off with players doing 30k+ dps and mobs doing 10k+ dps now I can only imagine how crazy those numbers are going to be 2 years, 5 years, 10 years from now.

Remember once a game goes live any nerfs to skills/dmg even if it is needed for the good of the game can actually cause great harm to the game instead due to the outrage from the players.

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velrac wrote:

Remember once a game goes live any nerfs to skills/dmg even if it is needed for the good of the game can actually cause great harm to the game instead due to the outrage from the players.

Truth. When Diablo III went live, there were hotfixes for a treasure chest exploit and nerfs to Demon Hunters, Wizards and Monks within the first week.

Everyone on the forums raged. But what does this prove?

It only proves how incompetent Blizzard is and all they care about is the RMAH instead of the game. So much for their "hardcore game testers".

They just want the RMAH up and running as soon as they can.

really?
if they wanted to do that, they could stick to their release date and enable it after a week.

Instead, they decided to postpone the release and rework legendaries... way to not listen to the community... -_-;

My D3 experience took a sudden turn for the positive this week: Blizz customer service granted my refund request.

I sent a ticket for requesting for refund and my reply was that "Thank you for submitting auction house inquiry.. blabla and they are looking into the auction house issue gold/item delay". Wtf seriously.

Gonna submit another one now..

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kodr wrote:

I guess OP don't know how to search in the AH.
I'm also in Act 2 (monk) and I never bought something above 200k. I may soon buy a 300k weapon because mine is a little bit low for Act 2 (700 DPS).

5 millions for something is kinda outrageous, especially for Act 2, you need to set a buyout price and filter your items.

So much this.. Also, if you only have 2 mil after playing for 2 whole weeks, you're doing something horribly wrong. xD

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velrac wrote:

For everyones sake Zeto I really really hope that GGG reads and understands what I have bolded. Because right now as not only myself,but many others have stated that unless GGG makes some pretty major cuts to elemental dmg now while we are still in closed beta this is exactly how the end game will be in PoE.

I hope not. But, at least GGG might listen to us on the issue.

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We currently only have 2 acts out of a presumed 10-14 acts of the games life.

Where'd you get those numbers? I know Act 4 is in the works, and they want to do at least 5 or 6, but there do you get 10-14?

One would think that players would be used to the concept of dynamic balancing... also known as nerfs and buffs.

But they don't get used to it :P Players complain, and it's really pretty juvenile.

Over time balance will be tweaked in any game... that's just how it is.

No company can put out a game and not balance it over time if the game is to be played for 5 years.